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Date: May 26th 1916
To
Mother
From
John McLean (Unsigned)
Letter

Niagara
May 26, 1916

Dear Mother:-
Rec your letter to-nig..... and was glad to hear, ..... it certanly does ma..... fill a little better to ..... letter from home you ..... aught to see the [?] .....
There is at 6 o'clock [?] ..... mail comes here. Th..... first I have got y..... What is Miss McLeods first name and I will write to her. [?] [?] I will write to him too and mrs peet.
The pictures are no good. did you get the Big one yet you want to write to him just wake him up once in a while. I like it fine down here. Harry [?] and I got our stripes day before yesterday [?] after this But Corpl. insted of pte. I am Battalion orderly Corpl. .....were away to Queens..... on a Route March. 207 .....we passed it on the ..... say we came through ..... I Think it was just ..... we came to Welland ..... I dont know what ..... we took from. For..... it was The new y..... Centiral Engine T..... on when we got h..... it must be that R..... tell Kate we could ..... falls quite plane fr..... train it was the B..... we saw it sure is pr..... But I will hunt him up as soon as he comes. I wrote one letter for Jack Jarrell and will write when ever he wants me too if he will only ask me. Jack Gamble was taken to the Hospital to-night I Think he has the feaver but dont tell any one up there or Mrs Jarrell would have a fit for fear Jack would get it he was sick before we came down he didn't [?] any after we got here well I guess This is enough.

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